and today here representatives from over seventy countries are making sure that everything is going. by the plan of course other issues such as drug trafficking proving. standards of living here in afghanistan as well as the state regulations and human rights issues oath is being discussed and it looks like russia is increasing its involvement in have helping the country in all those years. we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we'll continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to afghanistan through our territory we're working on additional measures to keep afghan forces together with our partners we're also helping restore the afghan economy disappear russia wrote off the remainder of ghana stands didn't eight hundred ninety one million u.s. dollars we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance also recently russia has said it's willing to sell over twenty am i seventeen helicopters to nature meant for the afghan army no those helicopters were designed especially to fly over

the mountain so as the country's chief of staff has said himself they would be perfect for the afghan army russia has also said that it's willing to give some of them for free in order to help the country and each of them costs from between thirteen and fifteen million u.s. dollars and that of course will also be very much needed here in afghanistan once troops start leaving the country out of one hundred thousand people that die because of drugs coming from afghanistan annually and more than a third of them dies in russia and together with the the e.u. russia consumes about fifty percent of drugs coming from afghanistan so for russia of course it is a big issue during this conference and. of course russia is also willing to cooperate with the partners from the west in order to tackle this problem. of a report. from the afghan capital kabul. still ahead this hour here on our see issue

may be no spring chicken but she sure has a lot of stamina. meet a woman who claims to be a hundred years old find out who she is and what's stopping her from play by the title of the oldest living on thoughts later in the program. the united nations says plans by the world's wealthiest nations to cut spending on aids could jeopardize recent progress in fighting the disease the warning came as news international aids conference which is underway in vienna. demanding treatment for all. this in the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hiv and aids and about the forms of treatment though those

views were met by many of the mainstream scientists with widespread criticism that has been a lot of debating here at the official conference itself to do with funding and treatment strategy that we heard yesterday from bill gates and bill clinton they were addressing an aids organizations and really asking them to ensure that they were providing value for money and delivery of services in tough economic times now there's been some protests going through the conference about this apparent scaling back people saying that governments aren't holding good on their promises i remember in two thousand and five the u.n. said the december two thousand and ten deadline promising universal access to hate hiv prevention treatments and most countries have fallen pretty far short of those targets safe from a lot of speakers saying that this really needs to be pushed forward funding still needs to be there and health care in any country should absolutely not be an option

that comes to pendant on a price tag now another of the areas is being discussed here at the conference is to be with treatments he seems new guidelines on early delivery of treatments that's been slightly controversial is going to be debated later on today but as he said the underlying basis of this conference is this focus on the human rights issue and the fact that this is not a need it's been a success in a global level but on an individual level today we can hear now from my colleague again to japan he met some people living with hiv a charming carton says he tried the saved her life not something you hear very often my life before the. story. i have to go for days weeks weeks and weeks to go are you know does not even take a bath is get high get high get high get high was smoke crack smoke. drink drink in this go to that passed out seven years ago when h.i.v.

diagnosis prompted her to change your lifestyle and i've been clean since. it has been restarted the ball of my new life now she takes a cocktail of three chivied fighting drugs every day and says it's like fighting any other disease but the international community thinks differently aids which the united nations says has killed twenty five million people is classed as a global epidemic there are however some scientists in the minority who counter this view hiv is just another that we know hundreds of them professor duesberg from the university of california berkeley says the world has been brainwashed into thinking aids is an infectious disease most scientists don't share his views aids she says comes along but is a new one to to make it an infectious disease but it's a lifestyle he sees over twenty million americans that's almost ten percent take

illicitly creational clocks every day professor duesberg subpoenas on aids being a sexually transmitted disease are also far from the mainstream view it's not about that in order to pick up this model from somebody who has to have. cells and sexual contacts with somebody who is positive not counting dates with negative thoughts they don't call us that's hope efficient it is just as hopeless is biologically hopeless no one argues that h.i.v. and aids is a problem it is the cause is in the facts of the immunity fish and sea diseases which are the focus of debate and disagreement in washington d.c. you come across these ads everywhere who's better on a bush or obama and that's a question a major aids foundation is asking well obama's new strategy is mostly focused on the domestic side with a child b. and a and for the first time the u.s.

national aids plan specifically targets gay and bisexual men and. ron simmons who is black gay and h.i.v. positive says targeting reese groups is actually a good thing and more efficient he has a support group for gay charity positive black man i was on the cusp of the wave of the sexual revolution so i had done all that stuff you know with a lot of i sort of knew that. so when i found out i was positive i wasn't surprised by while acknowledging lifestyle has a great deal to do with hiv diagnosis ron says people should avoid social stigma we think of people with long from the hapless broken figure thought if they have fall so tough luck don't get into how did you get sick that's not important how you got sick the fact is that you are sick but some scientists say that dealing with how it's contracted remains the key to its prevention gannett check an r t washington

d.c. . top story now seventy countries have gathered out a conference in kabul to discuss how to house security across the country to afghan forces by twenty fourteenth's talk more about this i'm now joined live from kabul by a member of the afghan parliament isabelle's. it's all hands on many thanks for joining us president karzai says afghans can and will provide for their own security and with the taliban running rampant is this really possible. well i think the afghans should provide for their own security when the time is right of course when we are really prepared for it nobody should. provide for a security for ever but this will take time afghans were completely stripped from its military and security forces ten years ago and we are on the process of building it but this build up will take time it's not just. did mechanical issues

in the training but also a national. culture for a military and security forces required and that is still a long way from achieving would you agree that the issue of the taliban is still a major obstacle to providing security within afghanistan. the afghan security forces at the present moment alone cannot provide security for this country and eventually we should but the schedule of withdrawal should be built on realistic timetables not on political timetables of other countries and also we should put more emphasis on not only technical training and equip equipping our military and security forces technically but also we should pay attention to other aspects of building a national security force which are non-technical there are cultural and cohesive

national creation of a force that is totally national not regional not by quarters not by regional and tribal. divisions let's focus now on some of the humanitarian problems facing the country the government in afghanistan says that it wants to control all the international aid coming into afghanistan but don't is say corruption a huge problem here what do you think. i think corruption has been a huge problem not only domestic corruption but also international corruption as also stripped us from some of the gains of all the military and. non-military aid that have was supposed to come to afghanistan i think the government of afghanistan and the leadership in upon us on the take the lead but also the nation as a whole should be besieged and should be encouraged to participate in fighting corruption because corruption alone by the government cannot be stopped alone but i think the

participation of the population and the participation of the internet. community is also an important factor in fighting corruption now washington originally spoke of a troop withdrawal but that time since been replaced by drawdown and now nato is saying it will stay until the mission is complete so do you think that will ever actually see international forces leave the country. if i remember correctly mr obama's statement regarding this issue was tailored very carefully he mentioned he said that they will begin. withdrawal a drawdown that would begin two thousand and eleven which means that there is an open issue of whether the situation is prepared for it where the security forces of the afghan national army and police are ready for it and whether the cooperation of the regional countries are in full force because without the cooperation of our

regional countries iran pakistan india even russia and the central asian states bringing security to afghanistan by military means alone would not be possible now another issue cool thing and huge concern to the international community is that afghanistan is now the number one heroin exposed in the world how is the government that planning to stem the drug trade. i think it's true that afghanistan produces a lot of opium but when you talk about the heroin that the international community for gets the fact that the in order to turn opium to heroin you require chemical precursors that come from huge pharmaceutical companies from europe and far east in other countries so been never talk about that there's a enough money made in bringing precursors to this country to turn our poppies into heroin and if you don't attack that angle of this problem just producing opium for

a farmer who wants to buy a plastic pair of shoes for his son once a year is not going to solve the problem in this country it does not count to sound acknowledge its role in the world drugs trade as the provider of the pm. i'm sorry there was an aircraft passing by saying please. afghanistan at least acknowledge its role as a major opium producer in the pot at the top play. in the wilds drug trains. of course afghanistan production of opium in afghanistan is and they call an economic factor but consumption and other parts of the world is also a major factor and also the production of precursor chemicals in those large quantities for example one thousand tons of opium last year in afghanistan required thirteen thousand pounds of chemical tons of chemical precursors that came from major force of the pharmaceutical producers in the world and and the consumer

markets are in europe and america afghans are producing it to survive and i'm not condoning it we should stop producing it but also the consumption should stop and also. the imports of precursors should also be stemmed in my opinion money laundering and banks and all those issues should be dealt with seriously and sometimes on a federal time many things they feel time that was doubtful and then the whole thing down on them and talking to us from kabul. president obama is urging the u.s. senate to policy the extension of benefits for unemployed americans he's criticized republicans for attempting to block the bill and deny help to millions. after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit the same people who didn't have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we

shouldn't offer relief to middle class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. well the proposed bill extends the deadline for filing for unemployment benefits to the end of november the move will cost thirty three billion dollars in additional deficit spending republicans are concerned about the expense and say any extension of benefits should be offset by spending cuts but some americans see the dispute as a classical battle for power. this is a situation where the government has to be proactive to try to stimulate the economy and to try to generate jobs and they haven't been doing a very great job of it so you can say well they shouldn't do anything but i don't see how that's going to lead to a recovery of our economy and neither do most economists around the world the problem is that there's an easy a logical group among the republicans and some other economists who feel that you know obama cannot have any victories he cannot

be able to claim that he did anything positive so they are just the party of no they will vote against everything he proposes because he's proposing it and this is the problem that the democrats are facing it's masked as an economic debate but it really is and it's a political difference at its core the same republicans who are moaning about the deficit and the dead are also favoring tax cuts for the richest americans so they don't have to pay any taxes at all and the government can't generate any income their real philosophy is quote starve the beast try to make it impossible for government to function and serve the public and they're not very interested in lower income americans are people in pain and in poverty they're very they identify with the richest americans and that's why this is become a class battle not just a political battle if you want to cut the budget you want to really deal with the deficit you have to cut military spending and that's something the republicans for

the most part are not interested in doing with the exception perhaps of ron paul so everybody is making selective. arguments to build a. case but the reality is that the money is going into military and counterintelligence kinds of programming that generates jobs for some people most people out of work. and filmmaker danny schechter there from new york now a georgian woman has set out to beat the world record for being the oldest living person on earth claiming to have just entered the tender age of one hundred thirty untested shows no signs of slowing down. stop by to west her happy birthday. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting but not through each other this georgian woman says she's turning hundred and thirty years old it's a claim backed up by her passport but she appears to have outlived her birth

certificate which would help prove she is the world's oldest living person by sixteen years she spends most of her time in bed but her ten grandchildren eleven great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren keep her entertained year round. now i feel weak but i don't want to stay in bed all the time i walked a large i worked on my garden plot and i did to raise my children after my husband died. they say despite her age she still has a sound mind and a sharp eye and enjoys a game of backgammon every now and then. mother worked all her life even during the war she never had a very comfortable life. is empty says a third and last living son she claims she gave birth to him when she was sixty her two older children died in the one nine hundred forty s. it seems there's something in the air in the mountains of georgia living to over

ninety is nothing out of the ordinary here but making it to hundred thirty is still something pretty special the secret could be in the simple rural life or the d.n.a. of the local population or as some have suggested a mix of what the documents or maybe is the combination of all all three but keeps people like and going strong for years relatives say and disabused to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having a drink every now and then and to spend all of her life in the village she was born in she didn't have much of an official education and doesn't know how to read or write her passport says she was born in one thousand a.d. but independently that documentation cannot be verified without antti says last birth certificate but several other documents and testimonies from her neighbors say i'm teasing is definitely over a century old. form. which is pretty.

prosperous sure it is a preacher it is creating a very conservative. official which i know is for we need. much more work every. word documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest person in the world what with people work or not and to succumb to news to lead by example proving that age is a case of mind over matter as long as you know. how to make the most of every single moment of life didn't go scar t. ga. the sun was in full swing in the crimea but it's about to get hossa the ukrainian city of sevastopol is making the final preparations for its annual international bank show featuring at the crime to the credit of the two wheeled wild and last go a gang of bikers gathered to be doing that journey to the show thousands are expected to attend the three day event which promises normal stop music dolls on

the calls and lots of never will come out is that going all out to spice up the show with a missed by competition and a whole array of stunts and special effects that kicks off friday and this is to do that. ok daniel bushell will bring you all the nation's business news in just a few moments take away hungry for the feast we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome

to business the former international show has opened in the south of england is one of the premier events for the industry with companies flowing in from all around the world our correspondent laura amid reports. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as farm bra international brings technology to russia's biggest aviation industry play as a representative not just air a float and sukhoi superjet but also titanium. the russian defense super corp defense important export company on exports and russian helicopters it was a successful beginning to the show for russian helicopters which sold four machines

to an indian company a new direction was a commercial market for the new market with care of several commercial. but that's not a big want to be confusion canonically developed. so additional. among the russian related deal signed his so far and placed an order for eleven planes for around a billion dollars and he will supply thirty of it super jets to an indonesian airline in a deal worth just under a billion dollars but the name on everyone's lips is boeing. undoubtedly the star of this year's show the boeing seven a seven dreamliner on british soil for the first time hailed as the first new generation. it's just c. an't wait it's all made of russian titanium the seventy seven's made of composite material and capable of traveling huge distances with this model still equipped for

test flights boeing's confident it could make the first deliveries by the end of the year following a tour of the brand new plane. explained russia's involvement. in the last few years we have signed a lot of contract most of which were for. a newly built titanium plate. that you and i just saw consists of about twenty tons worth of titanium product all of which were made in russia. boeing claims planes for the next eighty years will be modeled on the dreamliner and they're hoping to drum up new custom for the plane cheering the course of this week last year's paris air show was disastrous in terms of all this as the aerospace industry took a beating in the financial crisis this year could be different according to boeing i think there is some signs you know that the market just government badly definitely no airlines you know way more interest for more than your airplanes you

know definitely financially is not so the problem like eighteen months ago bumper is traditionally a litmus test for the state of the global aviation industry and the world's biggest defense and aircraft manufacturers will hate the evidence of it taking off your and that business r.t. . so if you look at the stock markets now european shares have slipped into the red afternoon trade that's following the u.s. futures traded lower indicating a weak wall street opening in a few hours time so off the disappointing results from goldman sachs and i.b.m. on monday. mosco has also fallen into negative ground in the last few wells oil majors is the only blue chip on the moist six as the price of lloyd sweet goes above seventy six dollars a barrel. and russia's largest gold producer paul use plans to pay a dividend of eight point five roubles pushchair for the first half of the year that's

around twenty seven cents the figure is slightly lower than expected it's about hole for the company paid last year if the board of directors recommendation is approved the company will spend just over fifty million dollars on dividends this year. looking to take out an eight hundred million dollar loan amid talks of holding an initial public offering join me in fifteen minutes before.

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i am. this is the couple for kicks off in dallas down with him to the school heavyweight strongly being forced to. move. this is to miss it's to the point it's to stabilize the country and provide humanitarian assistance.

in the battle against aids signs of a school for more money the disease but scientists are divided on prevention ill treatment this comes as delegates mean to ason international aids conference an aim to provide universal catholic teaching. protecting the pool president obama has the senate to approve an extension a moment point benefits accusing republicans of favoring the rich and using to help the bill would help millions struggling to survive on to the financial crisis but the government billions of dollars. more. than thirty minutes time. gives a unique take on the deficit for financial reform and much more the kaiser report is next. mother.